The first Cadillac F1 car completed its first laps at a private shakedown at Silverstone on 16 January with Mexican Perez behind the wheel. <\/p>\n
On the other side of the garage, Finland’s Bottas – who kept his finger on the F1 pulse as a reserve driver for Mercedes in 2025 – is also counting down to the next chapter of his career. <\/p>\n
“For me, it’s like a comeback,” Bottas said in an exclusive interview for the F1: Back at Base podcast. <\/p>\n
“I want to make it the best season I’ve had personally, when I look at my personal results. I really want to minimise things that I can feel that I could have done better.<\/p>\n
“I want to give it all to myself, but first of all, to the team. If I can finish with a feeling that there was nothing I could have tried harder or could have done better, that’s a good goal.” <\/p>\n
The arcs of Perez and Bottas’ F1 careers have followed a similar trajectory. Perez made his debut for Sauber in 2011, two years before Bottas made his bow with Williams. Both went on to play a big part in winning constructors’ world championships, Bottas contributing to five during his five seasons at Mercedes and Perez two during his four-year stint with Red Bull, which came to an end in 2024. <\/p>\n
Cadillac’s new pairing will utilise all that experience as they take on a bigger role to help accelerate the new team’s growth. <\/p>\n
“We’ve been basically through the whole paddock, we’ve done it all, we’ve seen it all in the sport,” said Perez. “So I think we have a great combination of drivers. <\/p>\n
“Starting with a new team, it’s a different sort of challenge. Being able to be part of building a new team really excited me about this project.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first Cadillac F1 car completed its first laps at a private shakedown at Silverstone on 16 January…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-432106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}